* Michael Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020313 07:44]: > * Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12 Mar 2002 15:44]: > > I'm against 6 digit dates as a communication > > standard because they're easy to misinterpret. > Same; hence my choice of the above attribution :-) It's bad enough > trying to sort out 12/03/02, 03/12/02 or 02/03/12. Trying to read > 120302, 031202 or 020312 causes my mental parser to have a nervous > breakdown. It's one of the few quibbles I have with Sven's configs.
well, if it's the only quibble there is with my pages - good! :-) I started using "[yymmdd]" as a date indicator on my webpages before Markus Kuhn wrote ISO-8601 (in 1995) - so sue me! ;-) On my mutt pages there are some 160 of such dates - and that's only the *mutt* pages. There're more.. One day I'll use perl to change them all. *grin* The long format yyyy-mm-dd is four characters longer. And I just find that too long to just be informal. Anyway, if you don't like that info on my pages then either ignore them or delete them. *shrug* Sven === $ grep -c '\[[09][0-9][01][0-9][0123][0-9]\]' mutt/*.html(.) | grep -v :0 mutt/mutt.bugs.html:12 mutt/mutt.help.html:1 mutt/mutt.manual.html:22 mutt/mutt.pictures.html:1 mutt/mutt.setup.html:4 mutt/mutt.users.html:28 mutt/mutt.utilities.html:2 mutt/mutt.vs.elm.html:32 mutt/mutt.wishlist.html:53 mutt/patches.html:3 mutt/questions.html:1 mutt/sites.html:1
